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Barnaby Surrey, the ingenuous spectator, has little besides innocence and good manners to recommend him to the reader or even to the other char- acters. Mr. Jones' writing is as dif- fident and honest as his hero, and just about as tame. THE ARCH OF STARS, by Clifford Lindsey Alderman (Appleton-Cen- tury-Crofts). A story of the AmerI- can Revolution, with a wicked adven- turess, Arabella Druce, for a heroine, and two true lovers, Jared French and Ruth Prentice, to insure a happy ending. Arabella has a disastrous fin- ish, but not until after she has brought a good many people to ruin with her deceitful ways and has placed as many obstacles as she can think of in the path of Jared and Ruth. Mr. Alderman writes with immense as- surance and produces a vigorous, mouth} kind of dialect that mayor may not be what Americans of the latter part of the eighteenth centur} were accustomed to hear. His char- acters are period pieces-brightly costumed, full of talk, and deeply dyed In heroic or villainous colors, according to what the plot calls for. something of an apologia pro vita sua. As such, it is convincing. (The au- thors are careful to note that they asked Hiss and his friends for as- sistance, too, and were rebuffed.) The facts of the case, arranged here in the proper sequence, point to Hiss's guilt far more compellingly than they seemed to do in the newspaper ac- coun ts of the two trials. The authors' style is invincibly maladroit and their treatment lacks the austerity the subject deserves, but the book provides rough notes for part of the tragic history that wIll someday be written of our time. Sp AIN, by Sacheverell Sitwell (Bats- ford) A literary pilgrimage and an illustrated guide for aesthetes. The youngest of the Sitwells is an old intimate of Spain, a land that has al- \ ways had a strong attraction for Eng- lishmen of highly individualized tastes and prose styles. He has become something of an authority on the country's manners and people; he has studied the castles and cathedrals of Aragon and Andalusia, Castile and Valencia, and has poked about in the noisome caves where the gypsIes live. It is, to him, all sad and beautIful and appealing, and he makes it so for the reader. But this is not a work for anyone curious about the present state of the country; Mr. Sitwell faces the past with a fearless eye, and It is tYPIcal of his dpproach that in the entire book there is not one reference to Francisco Franco. HERE'S ENGLAND, by Ruth McKenney and Richard Bransten (Harper). A cheerful and comprehensive guide- book that, unlike many of its counter- parts, takes into account the physical and cultural limitations of almost every type of reader likely to consult it. :Miss McKenney and her husband have divided their book (which they refer to as a "valentine," because of their infatuation with Great Britain) into two main parts; the first is devoted to a hypothetical two-week sojourn in London, the second to a series of jaunts within easy strik- ing distance, designed to take up any- thing from a month to a lifetime. On the assumption, probably correct, that- the average visitor to England has forgotten almost everything he learned about the country's history, art, and architecture, the authors G---- - / 1/, ..::..---- / . \ - I " I.r -..r-- ... GENER.AL SEEDS OF TREASON, by Ralph de Tole- dano and Victor Lasky (Funk & W agnalls). The authors of this book, the first full-dress account of the Hiss- Chambers affair, do not pretend to be detached in their view of the case, and the book almost defies being read with detachment. De Toledano and Lasky had the assistance of Cham- bers and his friends, and what we are gIven is therefore necessarily